After a Month On The Job, a Quick Look At Trump and Harris Now

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The accomplishments for President Donald Trump continue to rack up. A week ago, I wrote a column listing as comprehensively as possible all of the actions he and his team have undertaken in just the first three weeks. It was almost a 3,000-word column. On issue after issue, the Trump administration staked out common sense positions on issues in which 80% of Americans or better fully support. Because the Democrats are flailing around now without any natural leader of their party at the moment, there is no idea they have to offer that didn't just get soundly defeated at the ballot box last November, they reflexively have to stake out the 20% position on issues simply because it opposes Trump. 

Vice-President J.D. Vance gave a robust defense of free speech in Munich last week, calling on our European allies to break their trance of censorship and ideological prosecutions because of what Europeans citizens dare to say publicly. Vance gave a speech every member of what has been come to be called the West should have applauded and defended. Of course, Europe is outraged. They were visibly shaken that someone could say something like that in public and they couldn't do anything to him about it. 

Democrats here, along with reflexive Trump haters on the former right, called Vance's speech Putin porn, which is truly remarkable. Putin enjoyed seeing Western Europe get spun up. That certainly is true. But if you think for a New York minute Putin championed Vance's position on free speech, the Trump Derangement Syndrome has approached Stage 4. Nevertheless, since Vance is for free speech, Democrats and their willing resistance media accomplices have to be against it on principle.

It's been 106 days since the most historic election of my lifetime. One party is now in power and governing. The other is on the outside looking in, trying to discover on which issues it should galvanize, and how better to communicate to a broader segment of the country in order to put them on a footing to once again win nationally.

The Democratic Party isn't there, yet. 

Kamala Harris, and her babysitter-shtooping husband Doug Emhoff, were in New York City over the weekend to attend a couple Broadway performances - A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, and then later, Gypsy. Armstrong, of course, is an all-American classic, an absolute legend. I can only hope that the play honors the life of music and entertainment Satchmo gave us all for so long. 

The cast, of which I have no doubt voted 100% for Harris over Trump in the election, was excited to invite Harris up to the stage before the show and give them a little inspirational talk. Now anytime you hear the name Kamala Harris and inspirational talk in the same sentence, you know nothing sentient is going to follow, right? 



Come on, now. She had to have hit the bar in the foyer before this for a little fermented grape-flavored courage, right? Can you just imagine Harris as President right now and what the country and the world would look like? 

At the other play, Gypsy, she was recognize in the audience and received a standing ovation. 

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Look, I don't mock her for going to see a couple of Broadway shows. Roughly 12.3 million Americans do every year. Heck, our very good friend, Larry O'Connor, is a big show tune and theater guy. So is Radio Mike Gallagher. They both have conservative bona fides. But is this where the bulk of America is right now culturally? On Broadway? Nope. 

Donald Trump, Melania, Eric and Lara Trump, and their daughter, Carolina, flew into Daytona Beach for the annual running of the beginning of the NASCAR season, their crown jewel race, The Daytona 500. Weather definitely impacted the race, but not the mood as soon as POTUS 47 rolled onto the track in The Beast.

150,000 people cheering in the stands, plus millions more watching on television around the country. And the optics were just pure gold. Carolina, all of six-years-old, is taking in the race with Grandpa. 



On the tarmac at the airport, a gaggle naturally was there to pepper Trump with questions. Did he wave them off like we saw Harris do hundreds of times during her doomed presidential campaign? Of course, not. He never misses and opportunity to message. Never. 





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Tom Homan, the country's border czar, has been on the job for 28 days as well. His job was to seal the border, round up and deport the aggressively violent illegal aliens here, and recover some of the lost unaccompanied minors that were trafficked across The Biden/Harris open border for four years. On that first part, we're basically at the Mission Accomplished stage.


229 people is who got caught trying to cross. Two thousand miles-plus of border, and that's the level of traffic now. You might not want to believe his numbers, or spin it that Biden already began to take steps in his final months to regain control of the border. It's hogwash. This is about as closed of a border as you can practically have. It's like saying if you're down to 2% unemployment, with the transient nature of jobs coming and going, you're never actually going to get to 0%, so if you can hit 2%, that's assumed to be full employment. The kinds of numbers we're seeing across the Southern Border are 40-year lows. 

But don't even take Homan's word for it. NGO's in California trying to assist illegals come into San Diego are seeing business dry up to the point they've closed down. Here's Fox's Bill Melugin.


It's nearly impossible to write a script for a better first month of an administration than we've seen for Donald Trump. There is still a lot of turbulent, bumpy road ahead, though. Congress still has to navigate a razor-thin margin and get both a budget resolution and the one big beautiful bill done. That's not going to be an easy task, but this President may just be able to will them to get it done. And if they can pull it off, and enjoy the fruits of winning a little themselves, maybe they can begin to codify into bills the moves that Trump is making via Executive Orders so that the next Democratic president, may it be in another thousand years, can't reverse out all of Trump's victories with their own EO's.

Again, quoting the great Michael Ledeen, Faster please. 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | February 20, 2025
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